Hans Hollein in his 1968 manifesto "All is Architecture"
put forth the demand that architects should at last "stop
thinking only in materials". An echo of this utopian form
of architecture, which no-one, including himself, has ever
attempted, we may find in the present deconstructive architecture.
Its struggle against the forces of gravity, the denial of
the laws of matter, is remnant of that utopia-addicted time.
The actual message of decon...[ more ]